Ed Moyle Enterprise Quotations

When you take into account the fact that a large enterprise might have tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of machines, the job of securing those machines is very difficult and keeping them secure over time is even more difficult still.

Mass-mailing worms will often leverage issues in Office as part of their method of propagation. As such, I strongly advise that these patches be installed as soon as possible -- particularly within the enterprise where the e-mailing of Office documents is more commonplace and expected.

Rather than setting a universally high security bar across all systems in the enterprise, an enterprise might segregate systems into different 'zones,'

By doing all these things, ... the enterprise will know how to respond to a threat in ways that minimize downtime and keep digital assets secure, even in a world where threats are almost guaranteed.

The enterprise is starting to recognize that IM is here to stay and that it needs to be secured along with other technologies like HTTP and e-mail. As enterprises realize this, they are interested in protecting that technology with products from the vendors they are already using.